FTP support is also goneīut today's Chrome 88 release also comes with other features, deprecations, bug fixes, and security patches. Speaking at a conference in February 2018, Parisa Tabriz, Director of Engineering at Google, said the percentage of daily Chrome users who've loaded at least one page containing Flash content per day went down from around 80% in 2014 to under 8% in early 2018, a number that has most likely continued plummet since.
Apple and Mozilla have also stopped supporting Flash, and Microsoft is scheduled to end support later this month.Ĭurrently, according to web technology survey site W3Techs, only 2.2% of today's websites use Flash code, a number that has plummeted from a 28.5% figure recorded at the start of 2011. The decision was made together with Adobe and other browser makers such as Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft, in 2017. Google is not alone in its move to remove Flash.
On January 12, Adobe also began blocking content from playing inside Flash, as part of its final nail in the coffin. Our pick of the best Chromebooks for work, school, and home.įlash reached its official end of life (EoL) on December 31, 2020, when Adobe officially stopped supporting the software.
